For the strict vegetarian that I am I have always had problems eating food in a lot of restaurants, especially in the US where they hardly serve vegetarian food.
The basic problem I have is I dont believe what they serve is vegetarian when they say it is vegetarian (I know its a little too cynical but I cannot help it.) I have been laughed at a thousand times by Lidya and Kuba for this , but there is also another strict vegetarian friend of mine who believes what I do is right, so a little bit of motivation!! We believe it to the extent that we only eat Cheese pizza and not the veggie pizza in all the corporate info sessions at the University where they have free pizza!! :)
My doubt always is how do u believe its vegetarian when everything looks the same! Trust me chicken looks like paneer to me and pork looks like pineapple!! :D
Yesterday I got freaked when the reverse happened. We had lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant (it was a treat for Lidya's birthday and it was her choice to go there). The menu as usual had a lot of non-vegetarian and only one vegetarian option in every category with only Tofu and veggies ,but surprisingly the menu read "Vegetarian dishes"!! So Kuba tells me it reads "Vegetarian Dishes" because they replace all meat in the menu with Tofu if you order it vegetarian. But me being my usual self to be on the safest side ordered rice noodles with tofu :P. And Lidya ordered a "vegetarian shrimp and beef crispy noodles" :P (btw Lidya is also a vegetarian though not as crazy as me). When her order arrived I freaked. The shrimp and the beef actually look like the real shrimp and beef and nothing like tofu! They tell me its a mould, its all tofu try it... The shrimp pretty much had a tail and a shelly body!!!!!!!!
You bet I didnt even dare taste it !!!! For the first time in my life I saw vegetarian food which looked non vegetarian! Now I am more confused what to eat and what not to eat.... Everything looks the same you see :D :D
The basic problem I have is I dont believe what they serve is vegetarian when they say it is vegetarian (I know its a little too cynical but I cannot help it.) I have been laughed at a thousand times by Lidya and Kuba for this , but there is also another strict vegetarian friend of mine who believes what I do is right, so a little bit of motivation!! We believe it to the extent that we only eat Cheese pizza and not the veggie pizza in all the corporate info sessions at the University where they have free pizza!! :)
My doubt always is how do u believe its vegetarian when everything looks the same! Trust me chicken looks like paneer to me and pork looks like pineapple!! :D
Yesterday I got freaked when the reverse happened. We had lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant (it was a treat for Lidya's birthday and it was her choice to go there). The menu as usual had a lot of non-vegetarian and only one vegetarian option in every category with only Tofu and veggies ,but surprisingly the menu read "Vegetarian dishes"!! So Kuba tells me it reads "Vegetarian Dishes" because they replace all meat in the menu with Tofu if you order it vegetarian. But me being my usual self to be on the safest side ordered rice noodles with tofu :P. And Lidya ordered a "vegetarian shrimp and beef crispy noodles" :P (btw Lidya is also a vegetarian though not as crazy as me). When her order arrived I freaked. The shrimp and the beef actually look like the real shrimp and beef and nothing like tofu! They tell me its a mould, its all tofu try it... The shrimp pretty much had a tail and a shelly body!!!!!!!!
You bet I didnt even dare taste it !!!! For the first time in my life I saw vegetarian food which looked non vegetarian! Now I am more confused what to eat and what not to eat.... Everything looks the same you see :D :D
